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# How to Use the Keyboard to Move Your Cursor
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Wednesday, 17 September 2025
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One of the more interesting accessibility features of Windows 11 is the ability to use your keyboard to move your mouse cursor. This is especially helpful if your mouse stops working or if it’s battery-powered, dead, and you don’t have a replacement. Let’s go over how to turn Mouse Keys on and off, as well as how to use the numeric keypad to move your cursor.
## Turn Mouse Keys On/Off
There’s a keyboard shortcut in all Windows operating systems to turn Mouse Keys on or off. Here’s how you do it.
**Press and hold** the **Left Alt**, **Left Shift**, and **Num Lock** keys at the same time. For reference, Left Alt and Left Shift are the Alt and Shift keys on the left-hand side of your keyboard.
This will open up a dialog box asking if you would like to turn on/off Mouse Keys. Click the **Yes** button to do so. If your mouse isn’t working, you can use the **Spacebar** or Enter keys to select **Yes**.
You can turn Mouse Keys off in the same way as above.
You can also access Mouse Keys through the Accessibility settings in Windows 11. Simply press the **Windows key**, type **accessibility mouse settings** into the field, and press **Enter**. Use your **Tab** key to navigate to the toggle switch, then use the **Spacebar** to toggle it on. You can then use the **Alt + F4** shortcut to close the settings window.
## How Mouse Keys Works
If Mouse Keys are enabled, they will only work when Num Lock is enabled. You can tell if it is by looking at the light on your keyboard. You should hear a high-pitched beep sound when you turn on Num Lock, which tells you that the keypad is now controlling your mouse cursor.
As for how you move the cursor, the key will be the 8, 6, 4, and 2 keys, which correspond to the directional arrows (up, right, left, and down). Each key will move the mouse cursor one pixel at a time.
If you’d like to stop using Mouse Keys, simply toggle it off using **Num Lock** once again.
And there you have it! You never know when Mouse Keys might come in handy, so be sure to keep this trick in mind for the future.
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Tony Underwood, Founder and President of Cambium Data Inc. has proven himself as one of the top internetworking experts in the industry. Mr. Underwood began his IT career in 1991 in the US Navy working on critical military computer systems. He grew his computer and networking knowledge through a number of different IT jobs from desktop support all the way up to leading the Network Engineering organization of a multi-billion dollar international company. Mr Underwood was recognized as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert [\#7112](https://connect.directive.com/v4_6_release/services/system_io/Service/fv_sr100_request.rails?service_recid=7112&companyName=Dti) in March of 2001 and in 2022 he achieved the lifetime status of Cisco CCIE Emeritus
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